Computational models of narrative and analogical reasoning.
Extraction of narrative structure.
Computational modeling of culture and its effects on cognition.
Computational linguistics.
Knowledge Representation.
Machine Learning.
Application of AI to the social sciences and humanities.
| 2012 |
Finlayson, M.A. Sets of Signals, Information Flow, and Folktales, Proceedings of the Turing Centenary Conference and 8th Conference on Computability in Europe (CiE), Cambridge, England (published as How the World Computes, Lecture Notes in Computer Science [LNCS] volume 7318, edited by S. Barry Cooper, Anuj Dawar, and Benedikt Löwe, Springer, Berlin). pp. 228-236. | pdf (134 kb) |
| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. The Story Workbench: An Extensible Semi-Automatic Text Annotation Tool, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies, Stanford, CA. pp. 21-24. | pdf (606 kb) |
| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. Corpus Annotation in Service of Intelligent Narrative Technologies, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies, Stanford, CA. pp. 17-20. | pdf (597 kb) |
| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Kulkarni, N. Detecting Multi-Word Expressions Improves Word Sense Disambiguation, Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, Portland, OR. pp. 20-24. | pdf (112 kb)
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| 2011 |
Kulkarni, N. & Finlayson, M.A. jMWE: A Java Toolkit for Detecting Multi-Word Expressions, Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, Portland, OR. pp. 122-124. | pdf (93 kb)
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| 2010 |
Finlayson, M.A. Learning Narrative Morphologies from Annotated Folktales, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Automated Motif Discovery in Cultural Heritage and Scientific Communication Texts (AMICUS) Workshop, Vienna, Austria. pp. 99-102. | pdf (876 kb)
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| 2010 |
Hervás, R. & Finlayson, M.A. The Prevalence of Descriptive Referring Expressions in News and Narrative, Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Uppsala, Sweden. pp. 49-54. | pdf (89 kb)
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| 2009 |
Finlayson, M.A. Deriving Narrative Morphologies via Analogical Story Merging, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Analogy, Sofia, Bulgaria (published as New Frontiers in Analogy Research, edited by Boicho Kokinov, Keith Holyoak, and Dedre Gentner, New Bulgarian University Press, Sofia). pp. 127-136. | pdf (154 kb) |
| 2008 |
Finlayson, M.A. Collecting Semantics in the Wild: The Story Workbench, Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Naturally Inspired Artificial Intelligence, Arlington, VA (published as Technical Report FS-08-06, Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium, edited by Jacob Beal, Paul Bello, Nick Cassimatis, Michael Coen, and Patrick Winston, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA). pp. 46-53. | pdf (199 kb) |
| 2005 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Intermediate Features and Informational-level Constraint on Analogical Retrieval, Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy (edited by Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou, and Monica Bucciarelli, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ). pp. 666-671. | pdf (329 kb)
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| 2000 |
Hastings, J.T., Zhang, F., Finlayson, M.A., Goodberlet, J.G., & Smith, H.I. Two-dimensional spatial-phase-locked electron-beam lithography via sparse sampling. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 18(6): 3268-3271. | pdf (294 kb) |
| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A., Learning Narrative Structure from Annotated Folktales, Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. Reports of the AAAI 2010 Fall Symposia: Computational Models of Narrative. AI Magazine 32(1): 96-97. | pdf (373 kb) |
| 2010 |
Finlayson, M.A., Gervás, P., Mueller, E., Narayanan, S., & Winston, P.H., Preface: Computational Models of Narrative. in Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Computational Models of Narrative (Technical Report FS-10-04, Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium, edited by Mark Finlayson, Pablo Gervás, Erik Mueller, Srini Narayanan, and Patrick Winston AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA) pp. vii-viii.
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| 2010 |
Finlayson, M.A., Richards W., & Winston, P.H. Computational Models of Narrative: Review of a Workshop. AI Magazine 31(2): 97-100. | pdf (1.1 mb)
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| 2010 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Hervás, R., Annotation Guide for the UCM/MIT Indications, Referring Expressions, and Co-Reference Corpus (UMIREC corpus). MIT CSAIL Technical Report No. 2010-025.
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| 2009 |
Richards, W., Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Advancing Computational Models of Narrative. MIT CSAIL Technical Report No. 2009-063.
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| 2006 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Analogical Retrieval via Intermediate Features: The Goldilocks Hypothesis MIT CSAIL Technical Report No. 2006-071.
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| 2001 |
Finlayson, M.A., Development of a Scintillating Reference Grid for Spatial-Phase-Locked Electron-Beam Lithography, Master's Dissertation, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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| 2013 |
Finlayson, M.A., Löwe, B., Fissini, B., Meister, J.C., Fourth Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, to be held in Hamburg, Germany, August 4-6, 2013.
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| 2012 |
Finlayson, M.A., Gervás, P., Yuret, D., Bex, F., Third Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, held in Istanbul, Turkey, May 26-27, 2012.
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| 2010 |
Finlayson, M.A., Gervás, P., Mueller, E.T., Narayanan, S., & Winston, P.H., Symposium on Computational Models of Narrative, held in Arlington, VA, November 11-13, as part of the AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium Series.
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| 2009 |
Richards, W., Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., MIT Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, held in Beverley, Massachusetts, October 8-10.
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| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A., Learning Legal Principles to Enable Law at Cyber Speeds, Workshop on People, Power, and CyberPolitics, Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Narrative is a Key Cognitive Competency, Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Arlington, Virginia. |
| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Narrative Understanding at MIT CSAIL, DARPA Narrative Networks (N2) Workshop, Arlington, Virginia. |
| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Story Understanding via Learning and Exploiting Plot Patterns, DARPA Narrative Networks (N2) Workshop: The Neurobiology of Narrative, San Francisco, California. | poster (1.2 mb) |
| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Story Understanding via Learning and Exploiting Plot Patterns, DARPA STORyNET Workshop, Chantilly, Virginia. | poster (1.2 mb) |
| 2011 |
Cox, M., Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Narrative and Cultural Communication, OSD Human Social Culture and Behavior Focus 2011 Conference, Chantilly, Virginia. |
| 2008 |
Kraemer, J., Finlayson, M.A. Ichinco, D. & Gibson, Advances in Discourse: Theory and Annotation, in the Processing Text: Technological Resources Conference.
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| 2007 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., The Rapid Story Annotation Workbench, in the MIT CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2007.
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| 2007 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Reasoning by Imagining: The Neo-Bridge System, in the MIT CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2007.
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| 2006 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Proposal for a Computational Model of Story Understanding, presented at the MURI workshop on Computational Models for Belief Revision, Group Decision, and Cultural Shifts, 27-28 January 2006.
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| 2005 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Intermediate Features Improve Incremental Analogical Mapping, Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy (edited by Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou, and Monica Bucciarelli, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ). pp. 2477. | pdf (123 kb)
| poster (160 kb) |
| 2005 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Computational Principles of Human Analogical Reasoning, in the MIT CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2005.
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| 2004 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. A Model of Analogical Retrieval using Intermediate Features, Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL (edited by Kenneth Forbus, Dedre Genter, and Terry Reiger, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ). pp. 1557. | pdf (72 kb)
| poster (362 kb) |
| 2004 |
Winston, P.H. & Finlayson, M.A., Computational Politics, in the MIT CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2004, pp. 783-784.
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| 2012 |
(Invited) "Computationally Learning Propp's Morphology of the Folktale'', panel on Computational Folkloristics at the American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 26 October 2012. |
| 2012 |
"Computationally Learning Propp's Morphology of the Folktale'', at Narrative Matters 2012: Life and Narrative, held at the American University of Paris, Paris, France, 31 May 2012. |
| 2012 |
(Invited) "Sets of Signals, Information Flow, and Folktales", during the Special Session on Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information, at the Turning Centenary Conference and 8th Conference on Computability in Europe (CiE), Cambridge, England, 22 June 2012. |
| 2012 |
(Invited) "Learning Narrative Structure from Folktales", at the Department of Computer Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 3 March 2012. |
| 2011 |
(Invited) "Learning Plot Patterns", at the DARPA STORyNET Workshop, Charlottesville, Virginia, 28 February 2011. |
| 2010 |
(Invited) "Deriving Narrative Morphologies via Analogical Story Merging", at the Facultad Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 28 June 2010. | pdf (42 kb) |
| 2009 |
"Deriving Narrative Morphologies via Analogical Story Merging", at the Second International Conference on Analogy, Sofia, Bulgaria, 25 July 2009. |
| 2009 |
"Story Basis Sets and Intermediate Features", at the DARPA Workshop on EN-Mem Systems, Washington DC, 7 February 2007. |
| 2008 |
"Collecting Semantics in the Wild: The Story Workbench", at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Naturally Inspired Artificial Intelligence, Washington DC, 8 November 2008. |
| 2007 |
(Invited) "The Difficulties and Uses of Text Annotation, Medical and Otherwise" , at the Brigham & Women's Hospital Decision Systems Seminar, Boston, MA, 7 February 2007. |
| 2006 |
(Invited) "Analogy: What's Missing", at the MIT DARPA BICA Retreat on the Computational Human Intelligence Project, Dedham, MA, 19 January 2006. |
| 2004 |
"Analogical Retrieval via Intermediate Features", at the MIT CSAIL Student Seminar, Cambridge, MA, 10 May 2004.
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| 2012 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. , Modeling and Shaping Narrative Influence. Proposal in response to DARPA BAA-12-03, Narrative Networks. 18 months, $750,000, D12AP00210. |
| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Jumpstarting and Focusing the N2 Program via a Deeply-Annotated Corpus of Narratives. Proposal in response to DARPA BAA-10-55. 14 months, $199,691, D12AF00018. |
| 2009 |
Domeshek, E.A., Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Defining and Demonstrating Capabilities for Experience-Based Narrative Memory. Proposal in response to DARPA BAA-08-34. 13 months, $250,000, FA8750-10-1-0076. |
| 2003 |
Winston, P.H. & Finlayson, M.A., Representationally Complete Analogical Reasoning Systems and Steps Toward Their Application in Political Science. Proposal in response to NSF Solicitation AICS03, No. 03-600. 4 years, $446,371, IIS-0413206. |
| 2012 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Predicting and Influencing Culturally Grounded Thinking via Story Understanding Systems. Whitepaper in response to ONR BAA-12-016. |
| 2012 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Bidirectional Narrative Algorithms for Seeing Through Language to Meaning. Proposal in response to DARPA BAA-12-47, Deep Exploration and Filtering of Text (DEFT). |
| 2012 |
Roychowdhury, V., Tangherlini, T., Finlayson, M.A., Crespi, C. Glenn, B., & Bastani, R., Narratives in the Informational Patient Society and Their Association with Health Behavior. Proposal in response to NIH RFA-GM-13-006 Modeling Social Behavior (R01). |
| 2012 |
Rosen, J., et al., Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., , StorySense. Proposal in response to DARPA BAA-12-03, Narrative Networks. |
| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A., Gibson, E. & Winston, P.H., Computing the Cultural Lens. Proposal in response to NSF soliciation 11-502, Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI). |
| 2009 |
Finlayson, M.A., Hervás, R., Gervás, P. & Winston, P.H., Unblocking Research on Narrative using the Story Workbench. Proposal to MIT-Spain/La Cambra de Barcelona Seed Fund for 2010. |
| 2008 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Story Basis Sets and Intermediate Features: Foundations for Schema Building and Culturally-Grounded Interpretation. Whitepaper in response to RFI DARPA-SN-09-08 (accepted). |
| 2006 |
Finlayson, M.A., A Computational Model of Cultural Memory Effects. Revised Doctoral Thesis Proposal to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. |
| 2004 |
Finlayson, M.A., Analogical Reasoning using Representational Constraint and Re-representational Feedback. Doctoral Thesis Proposal to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. |
| 2004 |
Winston, P.H. & Finlayson, M.A., Explaining and Predicting Culturally Conditioned Viewpoints with Analogical Reasoning Systems. Proposal in response to NSF Solicitation HSD04, No. 04-537. |
| 2009-2011 |
Nidhi Kulkarni, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: jMWE: A Java Library for Collocation Detection.
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| 2008, Spring 2005 |
Emilie Kim, Masters of Engineering, Thesis: Investigation of Cultural Biases in Human Moral Recall: A Computationally Grounded Study, | pdf (949 kb).
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Undergraduate Thesis (UAP): Grounded Models for Understanding Conflicts from Multiple Points of View. | pdf (545 kb) |
| 2006-2007 |
Mark Seifter, Masters of Engineering, Thesis: Building Representations from Natural Language | pdf (537 kb). Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Application of Modern Natural Language Parsing Techniques to the Bridge Project. |
| 2006-2007 |
Diana Moore, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Undergraduate Thesis (UAP): Testing the Story Workbench: A Faster and more Accurate Tool for Word Sense Disambiguation | pdf (945 kb). UROP Project: Detecting Violations of Spelke Principles in Imagined Scenes. |
| Spring 2004 |
Yaron Binur, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: A GUI for Browsing Bridge Memory. |
| 2006-2007 |
Harold Cooper, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Motion Representation in the Bridge Project. |
| 2008-2009 |
Sebastien Dabdoub, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Projects: Collecting Phrase-Structure Parses from Novice Users with the Story Workbench and Distributing Computation over the CSAIL Condor Cluster. |
| 2010-2011 |
Benjamin Frank, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: A Review of Story Corpora. |
| Spring 2009 |
Kevin Hwang, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Cultural Biases in Human Moral Recall. |
| 2007-2008 |
Owen Lin, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Algorithms for Event Extraction. |
| Summer 2002 |
Maithilee Kunda, Research Science Institute High-School Research Assistant, Research Project Title: Quenching of Organic Scintillators in Polymer Thin Films for Spatial-Phase-Locked Electron-Beam Lithography. |
| Summer 2008 |
Drew Shapiro, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Visualizing Discourse in the Story Workbench. |
| Summer 2010, Fall 2008 |
Brett van Zuiden, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Projects: Pipelining the Genesis System and the Story Workbench, and jWSD: A Java Library for Word-Sense Disambiguation. |
| Summer 2008 |
Tejasvi Vishwanadha, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Detecting Collocations in the Story Workbench. |
| July 2010 |
Three day short course, "Extending the Story Workbench'', given to the NIL Group at the Facultad Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. |
| Spring 2006 |
Graduate Instructor, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Rahul Sarpeskar. |
| Fall 2004 |
Head Teaching Assistant, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Steven Burns. |
| Spring 2004 |
Head Teaching Assistant, 6.050 Information and Entropy, with Professors Paul Penfield and John Wyatt. |
| Fall 2003 |
Head Teaching Assistant, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Steven Burns. |
| Spring 2003 |
Head Teaching Assistant, 6.050 Information and Entropy, with Professors Paul Penfield and Seth Lloyd. |
| Fall 2002 |
Teaching Assistant, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Steven Burns. |
| 2008-2009 |
Consultant, MyRoar, Inc., Boston, MA. |
| 2007-2008 |
Consultant, EventMonitor, Inc., Boston, MA. |
| Summer 2003 |
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, MIT, under Professor Roger Petersen. |
| 2001-2002 |
Senior Engineer, Nantero, Inc., Woburn, MA. |
| Summer 1999 |
Graduate Research Assistant, Submicrometer Technology Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, under Theodore Bloomstein, Ph.D. and Mordechai Rothschild, Ph.D. |
| Summer 1998 |
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Nanostructures Laboratory, MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, under Professor Henry I. Smith. |
| Summer 1997 |
Undergraduate Research Assistant, High-field Science Group, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, under Associate Professor Donald Umstadter. |
| Summer 1996 |
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Applied Physics, University of Michigan, under Professor Roy Clarke. |
